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Robocop 2 is apparently disliked? I thought it was a good and improved sequel.



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Both "Gor" movies (IMDB scores 3.5 and 2.5)
https://www.cracked.com/blog/gor-most-ridiculous-nerd-fantasy-ever-filmed

A few weeks ago I bought the Blu-ray set... haven't watched it yet.

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drbunnig said:

I loved (and still enjoy) Jaws the Revenge (and to a lesser extent, Jaws 3-D) when I was younger. The death scenes are pretty brutal. But yeah, I grew up and discovered Revenge is generally considered one of the worst films of all time.

Jaws the Revenge is still my second favourite Jaws. Granted the dodgy story plot of a shark chasing a family members down is outrageous but the rest was fun to watch.
G2ThaUNiT said:

I always loved Cobra as a kick ass action film, only to find out it was pretty critically panned lol. Still a box-office success, at least.

This is where my username come from lol.

SvennoJ said:

I enjoyed King Solomon's mines quite a lot while growing up, just as much as Temple of Doom which I like the best of the 3 Indiana Jones movies at the time.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089421/

The 1985 version (they keep remaking that), 5.2 on IMDB

Still love this movie, there was a sequel Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, in general Allan Quatermain ha shad many movies pre these two and post these two. 


I used to enjoy Richard Chamberlain movies, Even Bourne Identity to me was better that the newer remakes as it was more story driven and not action driven

curl-6 said:

Jurassic Park: The Lost World was a childhood favourite that I later learned was considered mid, also kinda liked Armageddon and Deep Impact cos I was into disaster movies and comets/asteroids.

Armageddon and Deep Impact are corny now, but at the time they felt magical and made you think what if it really happened.

JEMC said:

Police Academy. I loved, and still do, that movie. It's far from great, but it still makes me smile and laugh with some jokes.

Before political correctness went mad. Not the best story plots but they were always more about the comedy.



 

 

Hudson Hawk.



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Guess Tron for me. Loved Tron, visually amazing for it's time. Apparently it was denied an Oscar for visual effects because the Academy thought they "cheated" using computers. Irony of that now.

I definitely can watch it back, it's kinda oddly paced but a great adventure. Light cycle scene, my god, amazing!

Apparently, solid 6/10. :P



Hmm, pie.

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Chrkeller said:

Hudson Hawk.

Oh wow, just find out now that's sitting on a 5 at Imbd! That's a fun movie as well, I even got it on Laserdisc. 

Another one I enjoyed was Cutthroat Island as well as Flesh+Blood before that:



Chrkeller said:

Hudson Hawk.

This is what I was going to post. The movie is really fun.

But there are several movies like Ace Ventura 2, Gremlins 2, Ghostbusters 2, City Slickers 2, From Hell, Nothing But Trouble, Freddys Dead: The Final Nightmare etc...

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I loved Transformers (1986) and I still do to this day!  It's far better than the Michael Bay films, but I don't think it is taken seriously, because it's a cartoon.  (To be fair, the Michael Bay films are also not taken seriously.)

They slaughtered most of my heroes from the TV series in the first third of the film.  I loved it!  I've never seen anything like it before or since.  To get the full effect I think you have to watch all the TV episodes released before the film to get properly attached to the characters.  In the DVD commentary, they said they were just making a story to explain where the new toys came from.  They had no idea that from a story telling perspective they were creating a risky masterpiece.

Imagine if Nintendo made a movie where they brutally murder Mario, Link and Pikachu, plus most supporting characters from these franchises, and then it's up to Olimar, Little Mac and a bunch of brand new characters to save the day.  They would never, ever do that.  I guess the closest thing would be Infinity War, but even then they kept the core 6 Avengers for the sequel.  (And we all knew they were going to bring back Spider-Man, the Guardians and all of the other really beloved characters.)

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I never really honestly cared what critics thought about a movie even though I generally do like the better reviewed movies. I'll give some of my "you're not supposed to say that!"

But I enjoyed Transformers: The Movie (1986 NOT the Michael Bay crap), The Wizard (it's Rain Man for Nintendo Kids and I love it, 1989), Rocky IV (lol) and I don't care whatsoever that the critics didn't like them.

Armageddon is also Michael Bay's best movie and far better than Bayformers.

Also there are movies that aren't critical darlings necessarily that are legit good movies. Independence Day (1996) and The Mummy (1999) for example I think are legit well written movies, you look at ID4 it has like 20 characters in that movie and all of them are likable and feel fleshed out as characters, today good luck finding a script that can pull that off in 3+ hours let alone a normal run time. Independence Day is better than every Star Wars movie since 1983 and better than most comic book movies as well, it's a great summer blockbuster. 

I hated admitting this to myself but The Mummy (1999) was flat out a better movie than mega hyped Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999). It had more of the charm of the original Star Wars to boot. 

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Soundwave said:

I never really honestly cared what critics thought about a movie even though I generally do like the better reviewed movies. I'll give some of my "you're not supposed to say that!"

But I enjoyed Transformers: The Movie (1986 NOT the Michael Bay crap), The Wizard (it's Rain Man for Nintendo Kids and I love it, 1989), Rocky IV (lol) and I don't care whatsoever that the critics didn't like them.

Armageddon is also Michael Bay's best movie and far better than Bayformers.

Also there are movies that aren't critical darlings necessarily that are legit good movies. Independence Day (1996) and The Mummy (1999) for example I think are legit well written movies, you look at ID4 it has like 20 characters in that movie and all of them are likable and feel fleshed out as characters, today good luck finding a script that can pull that off in 3+ hours let alone a normal run time. Independence Day is better than every Star Wars movie since 1983 and better than most comic book movies as well, it's a great summer blockbuster. 

I hated admitting this to myself but The Mummy (1999) was flat out a better movie than mega hyped Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999). It had more of the charm of the original Star Wars to boot. 

Anyone who says something bad about The Mummy is out of his/her f*cking mind. That movie is great! Even the second one is ok.

Now, if we talk about the third one ... yeah, that one was bad.



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